I would say to [Chinese government], You don't need Tibet really. You don't need all the problems Tibet creates for you. It's so small, so far away. Give them their religious freedom and I know that they wouldn't misuse it.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

Weapons means killing. Weapons is ah, I'm simply sensitive to the word.

Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!